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Pages: 252
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This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, i
Embodying the Dharma
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Pages: 213
Authors: David Germano
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Embodying the Dharma explores the centrality of relic veneration in Asian Buddhist cultures. Long disregarded by Western scholars as a superstitious practice re
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Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Donald K. Swearer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony
Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 262
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Secrets of the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Helmut Brinker
Categories: Buddhist art and symbolism
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This book traces the original meaning, function, style, and history of icons and relics across various schools of Buddhism.